Twitteronia

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I’m on it; Shaquille O’Neal is on it; soon enough, your mom will be on Twitter and it won’t be cool. Mainly, because she’ll know everything you would say at a cocktail party and every cocktail party that you go too. Unlike facebook, privacy settings can limit the experience others have with your profile (I for one, do not tinker with my settings); however, the advantage Twitter provides, I think, is watered down once everyone is on it.

So my prediction, and go ahead and mark my word. I think Twitter will shine for the next year, after that, it’s on it’s way out. Why? I’ll start crafting my reasons soon, but in the interim note that Twitter will gain significant popularity in the next 12 months, then a bunch of people will detract, the loyalists will remain, and the blog will be cool again.

Competition meet Convenience

I’ve been thinking recently a lot about accessibility on the web, and specifically within accessibility, instances when convenience overrides competition. I read in Fast Company’s latest issue that Hulu, ranked third by FC for Top 50 innovative companies (Facebook was 15th), indexes search results outside of their own content.

Coming back like Jordan wearing the 45

I’m not sure if anyone reads this, and if you do, quite frankly, you shouldn’t because I haven’t written anything down here for a while…none the lessness, I’m making a come back.

I saw a cartoon a few months back where two people were talking. Person 1 says “I have nothing to say”; person 2 says “You should blog about it.” I read this of course, right around the time I had lofty ideas for this blog. Anyways, I’ve been reading a lot more as of recent, and I have a few thoughts to jot down for those who don’t visit my site.

Signed,
Ghost Writer

The challenge

I poll on Iphone

Yesterday, I put the near finishing touches on my post about my thoughts on web site maintenance. As I started to put the final finesses on my post, I felt a growing desire to replace my question about whethere I should buy an Iphone, with a poll on whether I should buy an Iphone; however, as of yesterday, Wordpress.com didn’t offer a poll feature, only wordpress.org allowed for poll additions via php coding.

Web Maintenance

A few weeks back, I had an interesting conversation with a client about publishing content online. He made a good point that it used to be the case that content would get published and for the most part, what was published was the end stance. This was obviously the case with printed content, as once content went to the printers, the ink was pressed and the story was written. This was still the case with the web for some time too. That is to say, that what you published, for a long time, was for the most part, your final word. Now, what we see is iterations being published and content evolving – blog posts being revised, edits, newspaper articles being revised, edited, etc.

More please…little more…that’s good…thank you

I’ve been itching to write more here, but have been stalling for long enough. Here I am on my third posting, very tempted to steer off topic, deviate from the site’s mission, but I promise I will stay the course.

A co-worker pointed out bbc.co.uk to me yesterday. In the header there is a call-out to customize your homepage. The copy is perfect; they’re calling it my home page, when it’s not (yet), and they’re giving me the opportunity to customize it.